Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games
# Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

The Swimming competition at the 2006 Asian Games took place December 2–7 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar. It featured 38 events (19 male, 19 female), all conducted in a long course (50m) pool.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | F | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event↓/Date → | 2nd Sat | 2nd Sat | 3rd Sun | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 6th Wed | 7th Thu | 7th Thu |
| Men's 50 m freestyle | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 100 m freestyle | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| Men's 200 m freestyle | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 400 m freestyle | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Men's 1500 m freestyle | | | | | | | | | | | F | F |
| Men's 50 m backstroke | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| Men's 100 m backstroke | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Men's 200 m backstroke | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 50 m breaststroke | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 100 m breaststroke | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 200 m breaststroke | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| Men's 50 m butterfly | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Men's 100 m butterfly | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 200 m butterfly | H | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 200 m individual medley | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| Men's 400 m individual medley | H | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| Women's 50 m freestyle | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Women's 100 m freestyle | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| Women's 200 m freestyle | H | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 400 m freestyle | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 800 m freestyle | | | | | | | | | F | F | | |
| Women's 50 m backstroke | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 100 m backstroke | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| Women's 200 m backstroke | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 50 m breaststroke | H | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 100 m breaststroke | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Women's 200 m breaststroke | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| Women's 50 m butterfly | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| Women's 100 m butterfly | H | F | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 200 m butterfly | | | | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 200 m individual medley | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| Women's 400 m individual medley | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | | | | | | | H | F | | | | |
| Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay | F | F | | | | | | | | | | |

## Medalists

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 50 m freestyle details | Rafed Al-Masri Syria | 22.41 | Makoto Ito Japan | 22.77 | Cai Li China | 22.95 |
| 100 m freestyle details | Chen Zuo China | 49.06 AR | Park Tae-hwan South Korea | 50.02 | Daisuke Hosokawa Japan | 50.25 |
| 200 m freestyle details | Park Tae-hwan South Korea | 1:47.12 AR | Zhang Lin China | 1:47.85 | Daisuke Hosokawa Japan | 1:49.62 |
| 400 m freestyle details | Park Tae-hwan South Korea | 3:48.44 GR | Zhang Lin China | 3:49.03 | Takeshi Matsuda Japan | 3:49.38 |
| 1500 m freestyle details | Park Tae-hwan South Korea | 14:55.03 AR | Zhang Lin China | 15:03.13 | Takeshi Matsuda Japan | 15:17.18 |
| 50 m backstroke details | Junya Koga Japan | 25.40 GR | Ouyang Kunpeng China | 25.47 | Sung Min South Korea | 25.57 |
| 100 m backstroke details | Junichi Miyashita Japan | 54.67 GR | Ouyang Kunpeng China | 54.92 | Masafumi Yamaguchi Japan | 55.78 |
| 200 m backstroke details | Ryosuke Irie Japan | 1:58.85 GR | Ouyang Kunpeng China | 1:59.15 | Takashi Nakano Japan | 1:59.34 |
| 50 m breaststroke details | Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan | 28.29 GR | Kosuke Kitajima Japan | 28.38 | Wang Haibo China | 28.41 |
| 100 m breaststroke details | Kosuke Kitajima Japan | 1:01.13 | Makoto Yamashita Japan | 1:01.50 | Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan | 1:01.63 |
| 200 m breaststroke details | Kosuke Kitajima Japan | 2:12.05 | Daisuke Kimura Japan | 2:13.17 | Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan | 2:13.60 |
| 50 m butterfly details | Zhou Jiawei China | 23.94 GR | Ryo Takayasu Japan | 24.11 | Wang Dong China | 24.23 |
| 100 m butterfly details | Takashi Yamamoto Japan | 52.54 GR | Ryo Takayasu Japan | 52.84 | Wang Dong China | 53.03 |
| 200 m butterfly details | Wu Peng China | 1:54.91 GR | Takeshi Matsuda Japan | 1:55.49 | Ryuichi Shibata Japan | 1:56.44 |
| 200 m individual medley details | Hidemasa Sano Japan | 2:00.73 | Ken Takakuwa Japan | 2:01.03 | Han Kyu-chul South Korea | 2:02.56 |
| 400 m individual medley details | Hidemasa Sano Japan | 4:16.18 | Shinya Taniguchi Japan | 4:17.91 | Han Kyu-chul South Korea | 4:21.78 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay details | Japan Takamitsu Kojima Hiroaki Yamamoto Makoto Ito Daisuke Hosokawa | 3:18.95 AR | China Huang Shaohua Chen Zuo Cai Li Qu Jingyu | 3:19.26 | South Korea Han Kyu-chul Sung Min Lim Nam-gyun Park Tae-hwan | 3:22.16 |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay details | Japan Takeshi Matsuda Yuji Sakurai Takamitsu Kojima Daisuke Hosokawa | 7:14.86 GR | China Yu Chenglong Zhang Enjian Chen Zuo Zhang Lin | 7:15.13 | South Korea Lim Nam-gyun Han Kyu-chul Kang Yong-hwan Park Tae-hwan | 7:23.61 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | Japan Junichi Miyashita Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Daisuke Hosokawa | 3:36.52 GR | China Ouyang Kunpeng Lai Zhongjian Wang Dong Chen Zuo | 3:40.27 | South Korea Sung Min You Seung-hun Jeong Doo-hee Park Tae-hwan | 3:41.33 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 50 m freestyle details | Xu Yanwei China | 25.23 GR | Pang Jiaying China | 25.84 | Kaori Yamada Japan | 26.01 |
| 100 m freestyle details | Xu Yanwei China | 55.02 | Pang Jiaying China | 55.17 | Kaori Yamada Japan | 56.29 |
| 200 m freestyle details | Pang Jiaying China | 1:59.26 | Yang Yu China | 2:00.73 | Maki Mita Japan | 2:00.78 |
| 400 m freestyle details | Yang Jieqiao China | 4:12.75 | Zhu Wenrui China | 4:14.45 | Lee Ji-eun South Korea | 4:14.95 |
| 800 m freestyle details | Yurie Yano Japan | 8:29.51 | Yang Jieqiao China | 8:38.35 | Maiko Fujino Japan | 8:42.31 |
| 50 m backstroke details | Zhao Jing China | 28.69 GR | Gao Chang China | 28.88 | Reiko Nakamura Japan | 28.89 |
| 100 m backstroke details | Reiko Nakamura Japan | 1:00.82 | Xu Tianlongzi China | 1:01.22 | Zhao Jing China | 1:01.72 |
| 200 m backstroke details | Reiko Nakamura Japan | 2:10.33 | Zhao Jing China | 2:11.54 | Takami Igarashi Japan | 2:12.55 |
| 50 m breaststroke details | Ji Liping China | 31.52 GR | Asami Kitagawa Japan | 32.27 | Wang Qun China | 32.53 |
| 100 m breaststroke details | Asami Kitagawa Japan | 1:09.13 | Ji Liping China | 1:09.47 | Back Su-yeon South Korea | 1:10.22 |
| 200 m breaststroke details | Qi Hui China | 2:23.93 GR | Luo Nan China | 2:27.49 | Jung Seul-ki South Korea | 2:27.82 |
| 50 m butterfly details | Tao Li Singapore | 26.73 GR | Xu Yanwei China | 26.95 | Yuka Kato Japan | 26.98 |
| 100 m butterfly details | Zhou Yafei China | 58.39 | Xu Yanwei China | 58.73 | Tao Li Singapore | 58.96 |
| 200 m butterfly details | Yurie Yano Japan | 2:09.08 | Choi Hye-ra South Korea | 2:09.64 | Yuko Nakanishi Japan | 2:09.75 |
| 200 m individual medley details | Qi Hui China | 2:11.92 GR | Asami Kitagawa Japan | 2:14.51 | Maiko Fujino Japan | 2:15.21 |
| 400 m individual medley details | Qi Hui China | 4:38.31 GR | Yu Rui China | 4:39.51 | Maiko Fujino Japan | 4:42.70 |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay details | China Xu Yanwei Yang Yu Wang Dan Pang Jiaying | 3:42.11 | Japan Norie Urabe Maki Mita Kaori Yamada Haruka Ueda | 3:45.86 | Hong Kong Hannah Wilson Sherry Tsai Lee Leong Kwai Sze Hang Yu | 3:48.82 |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay details | China Tang Yi Yang Yu Tang Jingzhi Pang Jiaying | 8:01.89 | Japan Maki Mita Norie Urabe Haruka Ueda Yurie Yano | 8:06.76 | South Korea Lee Keo-ra Park Na-ri Jung Yoo-jin Lee Ji-eun | 8:14.68 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | China Zhao Jing Luo Nan Zhou Yafei Pang Jiaying | 4:04.22 | Japan Reiko Nakamura Asami Kitagawa Yuko Nakanishi Maki Mita | 4:05.14 | South Korea Lee Nam-eun Jung Seul-ki Shin Hae-in Ryu Yoon-ji | 4:09.22 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 16 | 22 | 6 | 44 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 16 | 14 | 17 | 47 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 2 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Syria (SYR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |

## Participating nations

A total of 313 athletes from 34 nations competed in swimming at the 2006 Asian Games:

* Bahrain (1)
* Bangladesh (4)
* Cambodia (2)
* China (38)
* Chinese Taipei (14)
* Hong Kong (21)
* India (5)
* Iran (8)
* Iraq (3)
* Japan (36)
* Kazakhstan (10)
* Kuwait (8)
* Kyrgyzstan (8)
* Laos (1)
* Lebanon (4)
* Macau (17)
* Malaysia (5)
* Maldives (2)
* Mongolia (9)
* Oman (2)
* Pakistan (2)
* Palestine (5)
* Philippines (10)
* Qatar (7)
* Saudi Arabia (3)
* Singapore (15)
* South Korea (26)
* Sri Lanka (6)
* Syria (5)
* Thailand (13)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* United Arab Emirates (2)
* Uzbekistan (17)
* Vietnam (3)
